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APW
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Posted: 17 June 2019 at 4:23pm |
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The extra dB is not what I found interesting, both the MTH
and Tham are tapped horns and about 100ish dB/watt is what I’d expect a typical small/compact
TH to produce, The Tham 15 is almost twice the size of its little brother and
still only produces about 100dB/watt.
What I was expecting is due to the increased volume of the MTH was for the F3 to be slightly lower than the Tham 12 as I expected it to have a longer horn path… this isn’t what the sims sugest, the f3 is almost exactly the same. I haven’t worked out the lengths of the horn yet on these two cabinets so cannot say for sure, but I’d imagen the horn length to be similar. Edited by APW - 17 June 2019 at 4:37pm |
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DMorison
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Think about how speaker efficiency increases when you go from a single to a double cab with the same driver - you'd expect 3dB more output for that increase, right. Now work out how many consecutive increases of 25% it takes to equal a doubling. What that adds up to is that one extra dB of efficiency for a 25% bigger cab is exactly what we'd expect, all else being equal.
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FOO
Young Croc Joined: 23 December 2018 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 813 |
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I do not like The Box products. You get a great bang-for-the-buck, but it ends there. Many do praise them, but i dont want to go cheap-ass.. I want the best possible performance :) Not the best price-to-performance ratio :D Quality do have a cost. Sounds interesting. You got any photos? Not that i want to copy anything. Just want see what you got. Large visible magnets are porn haha :D |
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Young Croc Joined: 17 May 2016 Status: Offline Points: 1292 |
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They are our own design, closer to the tham than yours and they give the driver a slightly harder time, we are currently working on a new variant that will go lower at the expense of a bit of spl and we are using the 12lx60v2 again, they really are very good in this situation, there is a driver on Thomann called the box 12 280 8w it's about €50, a few people have said it's very good in the mth30, I've not simmed it in anything so you should give it a look, you never know
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FOO
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Not problem.. i follow you :) And agree with you..
What tapped horns are they? Just curious :) I know the LX series from the old series. 18LX60 was i beast. And if they have keept to the recipe on the v2 series, maybe improved it, it should take a beating! |
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The 12lx60v2 is a brilliant driver, I use a lot of them in our tapped horns, some drivers do have an advantage in certain areas, however are they as physically strong, the beyma is a tank, we have abused the crap out of them and never had a problem with the cone, some will not be as physically strong, i would go with the driver the performs well and has proven itself in lots of tapped horns, just my thoughts.
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APW
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Please don't get me wrong, I'm not dissing the MTH-30.... both the Tham and the MTH are good proven designs and have very good output considering their small size. |
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FOO
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Dont know how interesting it is, really.
We all know that a bigger box usually means bigger boom :) More boom doesnt come for free, usually? Tham 12 and MTH30 isnt what i would call big boxes. 25% isnt that big of a increase when they are this small. But i catch your drift :) Anyways, if we look at the degree of carpentry skills needed to do both boxes, i would dare to say MTH30 is quite a bit more newbie friendly. The build difficulty is a bit more advanced on Tham12. So we might be talking about a simple case of R&D. But only my 5 cent :)
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APW
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The Beyma 12LX60v2 is the driver the Tham-12 was developed with, and other than the MTH30 having a dB or so extra output the response for the two enclosures looks extremely similar when using this driver. This is interesting considering the MTH is over 25% larger than the Tham they both have almost exactly the same output. Edited by APW - 16 June 2019 at 5:16pm |
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FOO
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Well... I took a long night and tried to learn a bit about hornresp, and with the help of some old input data from the big interweb, i found out how to sim MTH30 in hornresp. I think hahaha :D
And it actually looks like some sims somebody else have made. I compared a sim with PD 12SB30 up against my own sim with the same driver. And they looked identical. So i guess i am doing something right :) Been busy today and compared Beyma 12LX60v2 with PD123C01, 18sound 12LW1400, B&C 12TBX100, 12NW100 and 12NBX100. Beyma, PD and 18sound are really close. I have attached some screenshots of my "work". Grey plot is the Beyma on all of them. I actually prefer what i see with the Beyma, PD and 18sound. More flat'ish respons, and especially the Beyma got a big advantage around 80hz. But can't argue against the fact that all the B&C drivers, especially 12NW100 and 12TBX100 do got some grunt at 55hz. To my untrained eye, these two drivers are identical besides the magnet. Price differences and weight are not an issue here. One thing i do not like, is the connections on 12NBX100. I cant stand those, and really dont understand why someone would use those! And some sims... Grey: Beyma 12LX60v2 Black: PD 123C01 Grey: Beyma 12LX60v2 Black: 18sound 12LW1400 Grey: Beyma 12LX60v2 Black: B&C 12NBX100 Grey: Beyma 12LX60v2 Black: B&C 12NW100 Grey: Beyma 12LX60v2
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FOO
Young Croc Joined: 23 December 2018 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 813 |
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Thank you for some great info there :)
Seems you have done your part of the homework on those MTH30. Regarding the Beyma 12lx60, they do still make the v2 of it. And it looks to be quite good still, compared to todays standards. But dont know if it sims like the v1. Maybe you can help me with some sims of the MTH30 with a couple if different drivers? Beyma 12LX60 v2 B&C 12NBX100 B&C 12NW100 B&C 12TBX100 Its down to these four drivers. I have excluded the PD 123C01, because of the 3" coil. We got some superb service on Beyma here, so thats not a concern for me :)
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studio45
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I have a pair of MTH30 and have at various times loaded them with PD 12.SB30, Mackenzie 12-300, Fane Sovereign 12-500LF and Fane Sovereign 12-200.
I'd like to say there was a vast difference in output between each driver but there really wasn't! Those boxes could get bass out of a paper plate I swear down. I've also spent some time modelling them and then measuring the real ones, and come to the conclusion that Hornresp doesn't model them well at all. The simmed output is super peaky and looks like crap, but IRL it is much smoother and goes deeper (45Hz solid). The simmed impedance graph is also not very similar to the real one. There are three peaks, but they are not the same height or at the same frequencies as the sim. This is using Marc.O's specified Hornresp inputs. The 12LX60 is a great driver but not really current any more. Rich had a hell of a time getting recones out of Beyma, I think in the end they sent him the wrong ones THREE times.
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